Be an Original, smilebroadly, singloudly,paintyour rooms in bold colors,search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,wear a purple coat with a red hat, dance lightly with life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?One would think that "life is serious" had been engravedupon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,paint your rooms in bold colors,search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,and lofty things from low.- Helen Keller

When a man you like switches from whathe said a year ago, or four years ago,he is a broad-minded person who has courage enoughto change his mind with changing conditions.When a man you don't like does it,he is a liar who has broken his promise.- Franklin Pierce Adams

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,No matter how strong or clever,Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,And scoff at your best endeavor.For the target art has a broad expanse,And wherever you chance to hit it,Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,There are those who will never admit it.- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and thingscannot be acquired by vegetatingin one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.- Mark Twain

Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory.Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that?Offer discretion and discernment for our pastwith a broad spectrum of forgiveness.As for our present moment, delight.And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.- Mary Anne Radmacher

An individual has not started livinguntil he can rise above the narrow confinesof his individualistic concernsto the broader concerns of all humanity.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the worldwith a broader significancethan the narrow association ofmembers in a sect or creed.- Helen Keller

Majority rule only works if you're alsoconsidering individual rights,because you can't have five wolves and one sheepvoting on what to have for dinner.- Larry Flynt

The ultimate authority must always restwith the individual's own reason and critical analysis.- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

When trouble arises and things look bad,there is always one individual who perceives a solutionand is willing to take command.Very often, that individual is crazy.- Dave Barry

God enters by a private door into each individual.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;marry only the individual you think you can't live without.- James C. Dobson

Truth is the property of no individualbut is the treasure of all men.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,you have an obligation to be one.- Eleanor Roosevelt

No individual has any right to come into the worldand go out of it without leaving something behind.- George Washington Carver

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.Often, the price of freedom for an individualis challenging the closed minds of family and friend.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nationis the same as in the life of the individual.Pessimism kills the instinct thaturges men to struggle against poverty,ignorance and crime, and dries upall the fountains of joy in the world.- Helen Keller

Each of us shares a unity with Spirit and all life,and simultaneously each of us is an individual with free will.There is a duality to us as separate and as part of the whole.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.The ability to direct individual accomplishmentstoward organizational objectives.It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.- Andrew Carnegie

This overcoming of all the usual barriersbetween the individual and the Absoluteis the great mystic achievement.In mystic states we both become one with the Absoluteand we become aware of our oneness.This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.- William James

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe.Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole.All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings,and deeds are listened to by all that is.- Serge Kahili King

A hero is an ordinary individualwho finds the strength to persevereand endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.- Christopher Reeve

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.- Albert Einstein

To deal with individual human needsat the everyday level can be noble sometimes.- Jimmy Carter

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concernwith no superhuman authority behind it.- Albert Einstein

Everything that is really great and inspiringis created by the individual who can labor in freedom.- Albert Einstein

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individualbogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You have to be an original individual;you have to find your innermost core on your own,with no guide, no guiding scriptures.It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiryyou are bound to come to the sunrise.Everybody who has burned with intense inquiryhas found the sunrise.Others only believe.Those who believe are not religious,they are simply avoiding the great adventureof religion by believing.- Osho

All that is valuable in human societydepends upon the opportunity for developmentaccorded the individual.- Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual,but no one idolized.- Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.- Albert Einstein

I must admit that I personally measure successin terms of the contributionsan individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.- Margaret Mead

Breaking up is a natural evolutionwhen you try to figure out what you want in life.If you're with an individualwho isn't moving in the same directionand at the same rate that you are,it ain't going to work.- Usher Raymond

I claim to be a simple individual liableto err like any other fellow mortal.I own, however, that I have humility enoughto confess my errors and to retrace my steps.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Let every man be respected as an individualand no man idolized.- Albert Einstein

What is true of the individual will betomorrow true of the whole nationif individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life always rides in strength to victory,not through internationalism...but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.- Frank Lloyd Wright

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,there is only the meaning we each give to our life,an individual meaning, an individual plot,like an individual novel, a book for each person.- Anais Nin

Washington, where an insignificant individualmay trespass on a nation's time.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standingand none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.- Eleanor Roosevelt

An individual who breaks a law thatconscience tells him is unjust,and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonmentin order to arouse the conscienceof the community over its injustice,is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of the annoying things about believing in free willand individual responsibility is the difficultyof finding somebody to blame your problems on.And when you do find somebody, it's remarkablehow often his picture turns up on your driver's license.- P. J. O'Rourke

Liberty is to the collective body,what health is to every individual body.Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.- Thomas Jefferson

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our willwithin limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.I do not add "within the limits of the law"because law is often but the tyrant's will,and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.- Thomas Jefferson

A free America... means just this:individual freedom for all, rich or poor,or else this system of government we call democracyis only an expedient to enslave manto the machine and make him like it.- Frank Lloyd Wright

I submit that an individual who breaks the lawthat conscience tells him is unjustand willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jailto arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

From one point of view, one individual's votedoesn't make any difference whatsoever.The probability of an election swingingby a single vote is infinitesimal.On the other hand, if everybody took the attitudethat voting didn't matter, there could neverbe a democratically elected government - at all.So, does your vote matter? You bet your vote matters.And, at least as much as your vote matters,your intention for the future of the world matters.That's so important, it's worth saying again.At Least As Much As Your Vote Matters,Your Intention For The Future Of The Entire World Matters.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One man with courage makes a majority.- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

In matters of conscience,the law of the majority has no place.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,it is time to pause and reflect.- Mark Twain

The minority is always stronger than the majority,because the minority is generally formed by thosewho really have an opinion.- Soren Kierkegaard

The majority of men meet with failurebecause of their lack of persistencein creating new plans to takethe place of those which fail.- Napoleon Hill

Instead of comparing our lot with thatof those who are more fortunate than we are,we should compare it with the lotof the great majority of our fellow men.It then appears that we are among the privileged.- Helen Keller

Truth always rests with the minority,and the minority is always stronger than the majority,because the minority is generally formed by thosewho really have an opinion,while the strength of a majority is illusory,formed by the gangs who have no opinion -and who, therefore, in the next instant(when it is evident that the minority is the stronger)assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.- Soren Kierkegaard

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation,with a right, by the will of its majority,to bind themselves, but none tobind the succeeding generation,more than the inhabitants of another country.- Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle,that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,that will to be rightful must be reasonable;that the minority possess their equal rights,which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.- Thomas Jefferson

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,so as to have the life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.- Joseph Campbell

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,and it is the one flesh of all humankind.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.- Helen Keller

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.- Anais Nin

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."- Hans Christian Andersen

Individually, we are one drop.Together, we are an ocean.- Ryunosuke Satoro

The greatest mistake you can make in lifeis to be continually fearing you will make one.- Elbert Hubbard

Try a new perspective on diversity.Across the country and around the world,we are all one.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coalwith the intent of throwing it at someone else;you are the one who gets burned.- The Buddha

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.Heroes set their own course.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie